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Walter Kohn

Affiliations:	1950-1960	Physics	Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
	1960-1979	Physics	University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
	1979-1991	Physics	University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Area:

Theoretical chemistry

Website:

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1998/kohn.html

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(1923 - 2016)
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1998 was divided equally between Walter Kohn "for his development of the density-functional theory" and John A. Pople "for his development of computational methods in quantum chemistry".
http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/53688.html
https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/walter-kohn/
https://history.aip.org/phn/11603030.html
http://web.physics.ucsb.edu/~kohn/
https://www.physast.uga.edu/~mgeller/38.pdf
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Parents

Julian Schwinger	grad student	1948	Harvard
(Collisions of Light Nuclei)

Children

Michael E. Flatte	grad student		UC Santa Barbara
Vinay Ambegaokar	grad student	1960	Carnegie Institute of Technology
Chanchal Kumar Majumdar	grad student	1965	UCSD
William H. Butler	grad student	1965-1969	UC Santa Barbara
Joseph A. Rudnick	grad student	1970	UCSD
Kieron J. Burke	grad student	1989	UC Santa Barbara (Chemistry Tree)
Michael R. Geller	grad student	1994	UC Santa Barbara
N. David Mermin	post-doc	1963-1964	UCSD
Lu Jeu Sham	post-doc	1963-1965	UCSD
Thomas Maurice Rice	post-doc	1964-1966	UCSD
David Sherrington	post-doc	1967-1969	UCSD
Jens H. Jensen	post-doc	1987-1989	UC Santa Barbara
Eberhard KU Gross	post-doc	1984-1990	UC Santa Barbara
Dennis P. Clougherty	post-doc	1989-1992	UC Santa Barbara
Alex Kamenev	post-doc	1996-1999	UC Santa Barbara

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Kohn W, Sherrill CD. (2014) Editorial: Reflections on fifty years of density functional theory. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 140: 18A201
Hone DW, Ketzmerick R, Kohn W. (2009) Statistical mechanics of Floquet systems: the pervasive problem of near degeneracies. Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 79: 051129
Prodan E, Kohn W. (2005) Nearsightedness of electronic matter. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 102: 11635-8
Kohn W, Savin A, Ullrich CA. (2005) Hohenberg-Kohn theory including spin magnetism and magnetic fields International Journal of Quantum Chemistry. 101: 20-21
Arrow KJ, Axelrod J, Benacerraf B, et al. (2001) Nobel laureates' letter to President Bush. The Washington Post. A02
Ullrich CA, Kohn W. (2001) Kohn-Sham theory for ground-state ensembles. Physical Review Letters. 87: 093001
Kamenev A, Kohn W. (2001) Landauer conductance without two chemical potentials Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. 63: 1553041-15530411
Mattsson AE, Kohn W. (2001) An energy functional for surfaces Journal of Chemical Physics. 115: 3441-3443
Fertig HA, Kohn W. (2000) Symmetry of the atomic electron density in Hartree, Hartree-Fock, and density-functional theories Physical Review a - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics. 62: 052511-052511
Kohn W. (1999) Nobel lecture: Electronic structure of matter - Wave functions and density functional Reviews of Modern Physics. 71: 1253-1266

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